Interdisciplinary Design Lab B (85302): Singapore Jan 2019
Since the start of the new millennium, Singapore has sought to develop a vibrant
creative economy by mobilizing art and design as a means to reshape its local
urban landscape and recast the tropical city-state as a hub of creativity and
innovation in the region. This has resulted in the rebranding of Singapore as a
global city and its development as a distinctively cosmopolitan creative milieu,
one marked by multiple cultural histories and contemporary processes of
globalisation.
In this lab, students from UTS will travel to Singapore to critically examine its
shifting urban and visual landscape and creatively grapple with the tensions
between the past and the present in a city-state caught in the vortex of economic
development, on the one hand, and a diverse and dynamic living heritage, on the
other. In particular, the lab will explore the remaking of urban public spaces and
sites of colonial and cultural heritage; the design of spaces of food consumption
– such as hawker food centres and coffee houses (kopitiams) – as nodes of
community that highlight the uniqueness of places in crafting Singapore’s multiethnic
identity; and the role of art and design in constructing cultural citizenship
and participation and engendering emergent identities.
This critical exploration of the complex and dynamic heritage of Singapore
through the redesign of its urban, culinary and cultural landscapes will not only
open up new horizons of possibilities for interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and
collaborative design, it will also draw on the potential for design – as both a
practice and a critical sensibility – to intervene and act as a creative agent of
change in an increasingly globalised world.
UTS design students will develop projects through a sustained reflection on local
design practices and the urban environment, site visits to key institutions such as
the Singapore Art Museum, National Gallery of Singapore, Indian Heritage
Centre, National Design Centre, Gillman Barracks, LASALLE College of the Arts
and the Glasgow School of Art in Singapore.
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